Occult Assassin: Ice Shadows (A Novella) by Massa William

Author:Massa, William [Massa, William]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Critical Mass Publishing
Published: 2014-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

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The snowmobile shot into the wooded darkness. A white splinter of muted sunlight flashed through the pines racing past Kristin. She clung to consciousness as the stark, surreal landscape flew by. The barren trees seemed alive, reaching out for them with a terrible hunger. One of Rezok’s men sat behind Kristin, one powerful hand hooked around her neck while the other operated the vehicle’s controls, navigating the arctic obstacle course.

Kristin knew her time had run out. This was the end of the line. They were about to kill her. She’d perish deep within these snowy woods where her body would never be found. God, what had she done to deserve this?

Her life flashed before her eyes. She thought of her parents, good friends and old lovers. Thought of how her father and mother would suffer, never knowing what happened to their daughter. Tears welled in her eyes. It wasn’t fair…

A fat tree jumped into view in front of them, head-on collision imminent. Kristin’s captor was forced to relinquish his hold on her neck so that he could grab the controls with both hands. The snowmobile performed a hard right, dodging the tree and sending a plume of snow into the air.

For a moment, the man was distracted and Kristin saw her chance to escape. Body responding before her mind could talk her out of it, she hurled herself from the moving snowmobile. Kristin’s captor had expected little resistance from the mousy, broken woman and let out a sharp curse as she disappeared into the snow.

By the time he stopped the vehicle, Kristin was already on her feet and running at full bore. Her heart was pounding and the roar in her ears wouldn’t stop.

As she sprinted through the dense forest, she spotted a series of strange items dangling from the trees. Animal bones (or were they human?) hung from the branches on strings and danced back and forth like primitive wind chimes. Rune symbols had been cut into the frost-covered bark. It gave the woods an air of dark magic, almost as if everything inside it had become part of some ancient, long forgotten ritual.

Kristin couldn’t shake the feeling that she’d stumbled into her own personal Blair Witch Project, a flick she’d caught on cable years earlier. It had kept her up for days.

She slowed, each step becoming hesitant. The eerie trees gave way to a small, snowy clearing and now Kristin stopped dead in her tracks. The world tilted and elongated. The tree-line filled with unnatural life, transformed into a grotesque, nightmarish Dali painting.

Her eyes fastened on a deep hole dug into the snow. With growing dread, she realized that the grave was meant for her. A second later, her eyes spotted what remained of the other seven women and she understood the dark fate that awaited her. Kristin’s brain was still struggling to make sense of the horrific tableau when Rezok and his crew emerged from the surrounding forest.

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